Donald Harrison Quintet+Mardi Gras Indians+Cyril Neville

June 15, 2011

It’ll be well worth abandoning your cubicle, Dilbert, for this lunchtime office-park experience being billed as “A Day in Treme.” The excellent New Orleans jazz saxophonist Donald Harrison is also a full-fledged Mardi Gras Indian chief, and his mid-show transformation from one musical costume to another is a thing to behold. The Neville Brothers’ most tradition-steeped sibling joins him.

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